

The celebrity most interesting is Alexandra Burke and her partner Gorka Marquez, although she was emotional following her mother’s recent death, the spark between them was tangible. Mind you Debbie Magee is quite a revelation but I suspect a little will go a long way. It’s all so false except for the mums and dads in the audience weeping with pride – genuine. But it’s so saccharine, gleaming teeth, hugging, Anton du Becke trying to be the clown, forced jollity all round. I really don’t like Strictly Come Dancing but I have to admit the production is second to none, the colour and the music and the personalities are mesmerising. The memories never leave, like all Concern projects I’ve visited in Bangladesh, Sudan and Rwanda, those memories are implanted in my mind for ever. The result is dreadful, where those living there were mostly in bare feet wading through filth, I was in wellington boots, where they were stuck in those desperate conditions I was able to leave, shower, have a meal and come home. The dogs don’t even have a trench, they just go where they stand. The toilets were trenches where I saw a young boy hunkered down foot on either side of the trench and doing what he had to do. I keep hearing about Cox’s Bazaar on the news and I can more than visualise the scene as I was there some years ago with Concern Worldwide. Giving money to emergency relief is obvious but is it enough, anyway what else can we do? There are those brave people who go to foreign places to give physical help but not everyone can do this. Mexico, the Mediterranean, Bangladesh, Syria, people still trying to get their lives sorted in north Donegal where floods devastated homes and families and all those individual stories of hardship right here at home.ĭonald Trump and Kim Jong Un obviously don’t like each other but in their position they should had more control and dignity and it seems shocking to me that they can trade insults and jeopardise world peace and no one is stepping in and taking matters out of their hands and getting on with progressing a positive way forward. Then you think of all those people throughout the world who are suffering dreadful trauma. It is a strange situation to enjoy the fruits of the garden, the pleasure of friends, warmth and comfort and Strictly Come Dancing. Last week presents from my daughter of cabbages and a cauliflower that grew under a bird feeder – not planted but presumably from fallen seeds! Delicious.
Kjams flashing boxes plus#
plus two packets of dwarf daffodil bulbs for blooming next year.

The garden is exciting at the moment, stacks of apples and lots of tomatoes and a lovely present yesterday of two cyclamen, also ‘buns’ that turned out to be amazing gateaux.

I hope things are looking up in the world of these delicate creatures. Not far away was a lovely vibrant Tortoiseshell butterfly, had two of these and two Red Admirals. Very impressed with the sun flower which appeared in the garden and is blooming beautiful this morning, 24th September and a message of hope for the winter.
